J. B. Coney

J. B. Coney

Funeral services for Mr. J. B. Coney, also known as "J", of Dublin, will be held on Saturday January 19, 2013, at 2:00 p.m. at the Spring Hill Missionary Baptist Church located at 494 Evergreen Road in Dublin, Georgia. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Reverend Winfred McCloud and Reverend Jackie Holmes will officiate. Mr. Coney was born March 31, 1934, in Dublin, Georgia, to the late Mallie Coney, Sr. and the late Martha Pearl Thomas Coney. He was the first of eight children born to this union. He was preceded in death by his parents and three siblings, Ruby Lee Coney, Charlie Coney, and Mallie Coney, Jr. He joined the Spring Hill Baptist Church at an early age and also attended Laurens County Public Schools. He lived in Michigan City, Indiana, for many years and relocated to Dublin in 1969. Mr. Coney leaves to cherish his memories a loving and devoted family which includes two sisters, Nellie Wells of Atlanta, and Shirley Howard of Asbury Park, NJ; two brothers, Hubbie Coney of Atlanta, and A. C. Coney of Miami, FL; a sister-in-law, Mable Coney of Cambridge, MA, and two devoted first cousins, Robert Brown and Annie Lee Thorpe. He also leaves a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives and friends. Active pallbearers will be Christopher Wells, Timothy Thorpe, Kareem Cooper, Willie Roy Whipple, Booker T. Thomas Jr., Horace Thomas, Paul Thomas, Roy Taylor and Bryson Wells. Robert Brown, Eddie Joe Coney, Ulysses Wells and James Wright will serve as honorary pallbearers. The family will receive friends at 208 Hillcrest Drive, Apartment 4F, in Dublin, and at the Dudley Funeral Home on Friday from 6:30 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Services by Dudley Funeral Home of Dublin Post condolences at www.ServicesByDudley.com.